Comment by anonzzzies
10 hours ago
The ideas are good; you do require some sort of KYC; then these proven humans can still be bots but at least the supply is not infinite.
What I would like to see is a 'interest' timeline which does not just show me posts from people I follow, but only the posts that interest me and nothing else from those users (unless i click on User timeline); for instance; i only care about english and dutch posts, i only care about tech posts (a tech poster might have gone to taylor swift; I don't want to see that post as i don't give a rats ass). With AI's language skills, this should be fairly trivial.
The problem is, once you need to make money, you will show me stuff I don't want to see and then I will leave. Rather you just ask me for $/mo and never do that, but we see how that goes with existing networks....
so, in essence, a "for you" feed, based on your "follower feed", which filters posts based on your interactions (e.g. upvotes) with content on the platform? sounds cool
about the monetization: i would strongly be against sponsored posts / the advertising BS we see in current social media. yes, it's what made them so profitable, but IMO it's also one of the main reasons why they suck. IMO, a subscription based model would be the only viable way: it's an optional subscription, that gives you mainly social benefits: icons, decorations for your page etc. furthermore, early access features would be accessible to subscribers only. (yes, X has a similar subscription model, but it barely focuses on social status benefits; having played MMOs, I must say that humans are ready to spend big sums of money for social status items, even if it's just 'pixels on a screen'; however, a simple blue badge is OFC not enough to make someone spend big bucks.
> so, in essence, a "for you" feed, based on your "follower feed", which filters posts based on your interactions (e.g. upvotes) with content on the platform? sounds cool
yes or actually working 'less like this' 'more like this' which does not care about following or not, but only about whatever this is about.
perhaps leaving hints to stuff i Really Do Not want (always a stronger emotion than do want), for instance politics and parenting; no matter how interesting the OPs are, I care so absolutely nothing about these things, I will unfollow. And that is a shame.